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March 2006

March 08, 2006

Buddhism: Reflections on the Blogisattva Awards

Sunday marked a first in most of our worlds: the Blogisattva Awards hosted by Tom...

March 05, 2006

Life: Friends in Low Places

A couple of my good friends from England are now in India and, well, for...

March 03, 2006

Politics: Buddhism in Politics

From Thich Nhat Hanh's book, "Old Path White Clouds", a compilation of stories from the...

March 03, 2006

Philosophy: more quantum physics, yea

I stumbled across another set of videos on quantum physics (I need all of these...

March 01, 2006

Buddhism: Sanskrit pronunciation

I prepared this for a professor last week and thought I'd toss it online (I've...

March 01, 2006

Buddhism: I [heart] Huckabees

Hey folks. I've volunteered to give a talk on the Buddhist Philosophy in "I [heart]...

February 2006

February 27, 2006

Philosophy: Videos make everything easy

I love to learn through videos. Perhaps I'm a 'visual learner', or perhaps I'm lazy,...

February 24, 2006

Buddhism: bodhisattva Thomas Merton

REFLECTION FOR THE WEEK OF February 13, 2006 "The heresy of individualism: thinking oneself a...

February 24, 2006

Philosophy: Beyond Dennett and Darwin

As you may know, I am studying Daniel Dennett's book "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" (a review)...

February 21, 2006

Buddhism/Politics: The Panchen Lama, still missing after 10 years

Bless the life of the protector of the Snowy Land, Tenzin Gyatso,To remain steadfast for...

February 20, 2006

Life: the Funniest/Happiest Day Ever

Today must be the funniest/happiest day of my life.Yes. It is true.Well, maybe not.In an...

February 17, 2006

Life: When can I go back to Hawai’i?

Lord Almighty, It's Cold!For: Missoula TonightChance SnowWindy FridaySunny, WindyMostlySunnyWindy FridayNightClear,MostlyClear SaturdaySunny, MostlySunny SaturdayNightCloudy, PartlyCloudy Lo...

February 17, 2006

Philosophy: Darwin, The Triumph of an Idea

I am nearly midway through Daniel Dennett's book, "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" now, and preparing to...

February 15, 2006

Life: work, school, work, school…

Have I complained that I'm working too much lately? Well... The nice thing is that...

February 13, 2006

Life: Existential Reflections (solipsistic brooding?)

One can only know who he or she truly is when dead. No. Even then...

February 11, 2006

Philosophy: Wedging Mind into Evolution, does it work?

One of the things I studied this week was "The Baldwin Effect" (an extensive bibliography)....

February 07, 2006

Philosophy: Authenticity, some musings

So... Another topic I'm somewhat ill-equipped to tackle, but no less than the next guy...

February 05, 2006

Politics: Einstein’s Ethics, War, and Us

I stumbled across this the other day at work and just spent much of this...

February 03, 2006

Philosophy: a roundup of current studies and upcoming endeavors

My current classes:Sartre - PHIL 467Ethics & Evolution - PHIL 480Philosophy & Cosmology - PHIL...

February 03, 2006

Life: Lots of work, and a coming visitor

I'm already through the second week of Spring semester, amazingly enough. Ten graduate-level credits, sitting...

February 03, 2006

New Topic: Politics

Thanks to a somewhat recent post on Nacho's Woodmore Village Blog ("Buddhist Blogs and the...

January 2006

January 28, 2006

Philosophy: Happiness and Love or “a rope in the quicksand of life”

Part of my own love of wisdom is due to admiration for those who have...

January 28, 2006

Life: Back in the Saddle Again

Relief... Three weeks without my god-given right (or hard-won privilege) of high-speed internet access in...

January 19, 2006

Life: Happy, Busy, Cold

I'm back from Hawaii, (pictures to come soon), slightly tanned, well rested, more motivated, and...

January 11, 2006

Life: A short update from Hawai’i

Aloha... I have only 5 minutes on the computer, so I'll keep this brief: I'm...

January 09, 2006

Life: bad poetry, drinking, and awareness

I haven't posted much lately, due to numerous factors. One, I've been working, which has...

January 06, 2006

Buddhism: learning via enigma

In his first chapter of nothingness and emptiness: a buddhist engagement with the ontology of...

January 01, 2006

Life: 2005 in photos (of me)

Well, it would be hard to say that it was the best year ever, but...

December 2005

December 21, 2005

Buddhism: (3 of 3) The Magic of ‘Three’

(hint: start at the beginning) (completed on Dec 27th) I've been a lazy boy this...

December 21, 2005

Life: (2 of 3) The Magic of ‘Three’

(hint: start at the beginning) The Magic of 'three'. Is there such a thing? If...

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